CIDER WITH ROSIE
by LEE, Laurie; illustrated by WARD, John:
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
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Laurie Lee was born in Stroud, Gloucestershire, in 1914, and was educated at Slad village school and Stroud Central School. In his teens Lee had already began to write poems. He had met two sisters who encouraged him in his writing aspirations. At the age of nineteen he walked to London and then travelled on foot through Spain, where he was trapped by the outbreak of the Civil War. He later returned by crossing the Pyrenees, as described in his book As I Walked Out one Midsummer Morning . During World War II he made documentary films for the General Post Office film unit (1939-40), and the Crown Film Unit (1941-43). From 1944 to 1946 he worked as an editor at the Ministry of Information Publications. In 1950 he married Catherine Polge and they had one daughter. He died in May 1997.
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- Bookseller
- Lucius Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23126
- Title
- CIDER WITH ROSIE
- Author
- LEE, Laurie; illustrated by WARD, John:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First edition, first printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: The Hogarth Press. 1959
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